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No, more like trying to find a way for broadcasters to make a buck off digital.

They keep shooting themselves in the foot by allocating bandwidth for anything but HD, and can't figure out why HD hasn't really taken off. First it was subchannels, mobile is coming, as is data and who knows what else.

The CRC report states, "This Samsung ATSC 8-VSB receiver, based on Samsung Gemini chip and using an ALPS tuner, is the best DTV receiver that CRC ever tested up to now. It has very impressive multipath and C/N performances."

Most impressive, but is this combination in any existing or planned Samsung consumer unit? What's in the DTBH2650F?

The CRC report states, "This Samsung ATSC 8-VSB receiver, based on Samsung Gemini chip and using an ALPS tuner, is the best DTV receiver that CRC ever tested up to now. It has very impressive multipath and C/N performances."

Most impressive, but is this combination in any existing or planned Samsung consumer unit? What's in the DTBH2650F?

In Aug05, CRC tested the prototype Samsung ATSC Receiver, which reportedly used an off-the-shelf Alps tuner
and the mysterious "Gemini" ATSC Decoder chip.
The performance was considerably better than the prototype LG/Zenith "fifth gen" prototype.

Since the new Samsung DTB-H260F contains the Alps TDQU3 tuner and an ATI Xilleon 240H Display Processor chip
that INCLUDES the ATSC/NTSC/QAM Demodulator, I'm going to speculate that the ATI Xilleon 240 is the "Gemini" product:http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...13#post8868013

Well....
Gimini is a Samsung's ATSC Demodulator.
Samsung already integrated it into their Tuner promoting it to the DTV market as a NIM ( RF TV Tuner + Demodulator).